McGruber writes: On Twitter, William Shatner is sending his contempt to the Lethbridge Police department and three of its officers that celebrated May Fourth by drawing their rifles on and then taking down a woman dressed as Stormtrooper, who had been standing in the parking lot of a Star Wars-themed business. According to CTV News, the restaurant was promoting its special…
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Amazon’s Top Watchdog In Congress Says Its Witness ‘May Have Lied’
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Amazon’s witness at a hearing last year “may have lied to Congress” about how the company uses data from its third-party sellers to come up with its private-label products, House Antitrust Subcommittee Chairman David Cicilline said Thursday. The assertion comes after a Wall Street Journal investigation found Amazon employees had used non-aggregated or…
Hackers Steal $25 Million Worth of Cryptocurrency From Uniswap and LendfMe
Hackers have stolen more than $25 million in cryptocurrency from the Uniswap exchange and the Lendf.me lending platform. From a report: The attacks took place over the weekend, on Saturday and Sunday, respectively. Although an investigation is currently underway, the two attacks are believed to be related, and most likely carried out by the same group or individual. According to investigators,…
Facebook Sues Namecheap For Letting Scammers Register Lookalike Domains
Facebook filed a lawsuit this week against Namecheap, claiming the domain name registrar has refused to cooperate in an investigation into a series of malicious domains that have been registered through its service and which impersonated the Facebook brand. ZDNet reports: Christen Dubois, Director and Associate General Counsel at Facebook, said today that Facebook engineers tracked down 45 suspicious Facebook lookalike…
Babies Are Prewired To Perceive the World
In an investigation of neural connectivity in 30 infants ranging from six to 57 days old (with an average age of 27 days), neuroscientists found that circuit wiring precedes, and thus may guide, regional specialization, shedding light on how knowledge systems emerge in the brain. An anonymous reader shares a report from Scientific American: In the study, published Monday in Proceedings…
Report: Facebook’s Privacy Tools Are Actually ‘Riddled With Missing Data’
Bustle’s tech site Input reports on some research from the U.K.-based human rights charity Privacy International: Facebook wants you to think it’s consistently increasing transparency about how the company stores and uses your data. But the company still isn’t revealing everything to its users, according to an investigation by Privacy International. The obvious holes in Facebook’s privacy data exports paint a…
Data Protection Authority Investigates Avast for Selling Users’ Browsing History
The Czech data protection authority has announced an investigation into antivirus company Avast, which was harvesting the browsing history of over 100 million users and then selling products based on that data to a slew of different companies including Google, Microsoft, and Home Depot. From a report: “On the basis of the information revealed describing the practices of Avast Software s.r.o.,…
Is Amazon Responding to Employee Concerns About ‘Ring’ Privacy?
“The deployment of connected home security cameras that allow footage to be queried centrally are simply not compatible with a free society,” wrote Amazon software developer Max Eliaser (as part of last week’s Medium post from “Amazon Employees For Climate Justice.”) “The privacy issues are not fixable with regulation and there is no balance that can be struck. Ring should be…
127 Tesla Owners Complain The Cars Accelerate On Their Own
An anonymous reader quotes the Associated Press:
The U.S. government’s auto safety agency is looking into allegations that all three of Tesla’s electric vehicle models can suddenly accelerate on their own. Brian Sparks of Berkeley, California, petitioned the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration asking for an investigation. An agency document shows 127 owner complaints to the government that include 110 crashes and…
More Than Half a Billion Android Users Have Installed ‘Fleeceware’ Apps
Security researchers from Sophos say they’ve discovered a new set of “fleeceware” apps that appear to have been downloaded and installed by more than 600 million Android users. From a report: The term fleeceware is a recent addition to the cyber-security jargon. It was coined by UK cyber-security firm Sophos last September following an investigation that discovered a new type of…